Quotes About Wisdom

4 El que trata de penetrar en la Rosaleda de los Filósofos sin la clave es como el hombre que pretenda caminar sin los pies. Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Oppenheim

Tal es la fuerza de la verdad, que, como la bondad, se difunde por sí misma.

Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends.

The young people come along, and clamor so loudly for their share, and have so little idea of the pain that awaits them. One's heart aches at the knowledge, but one cannot tell them; they have to have their own way and pay their own penalties.

The pair practiced the French art of conversation, which meant that neither tried to force his ideas, but each brought forward such wit or wisdom as he possessed, and the other listened and in return received an equal share of attention.

Montesquieu had said that to love reading was to exchange hours of boredom for hours of delight; Laharpe had said that a book is a friend that never deceives.

Mark Twain, I believe, is author of the saying that a lie can run all the way round the earth while the truth is putting on its

Go forth, my son, and learn with how little wisdom the world is governed!

These are thing, Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, that the church call sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing-- He paused. --is to be kind.

The risk her stories posed to others—and to herself—was more subtle. When she was younger, she had used secrets as if they were currency, but she'd found out how secrets could use her instead by becoming stronger than she. It happened whenever she couldn't stay away from a secret—drawn to it the way Georg Weiler was drawn to the bottle—though she sensed it would be better for her not to know.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious. And I am grateful.

Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.

Rama rajya, Rama's rule or kingdom – it was the highest Hindu praise: Rama the hero of one of the two great Hindu epics, the embodiment of goodness, universally loved, the man who in any situation could be relied upon to do the right thing, the religious thing, the wise thing, a figure at once human and divine: to be ruled by Rama's law was to know bliss.

Veda means originally knowing or knowledge, and this name is given

trained in arts and versed in law; High-souled

Whose lore in words of wisdom flows. Whose constant care and chief delight Were Scripture and ascetic rite, The good Válmíki

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

???? (hara hachi bun me, "belly eight parts [in ten] full")—an ancient Confucian precept

clichés got that way because they reflected reality. Better the devil you know. Don't take sweets from strangers.

This was a civilized country. The fascists could never gain a hold here. That was the received wisdom, anyway. But Germany too had been a civilized country. No one could predict what might happen in any country when the numbers of the dispossessed reached a critical mass. Anyone who promised salvation would find a following.

Remember what they say about bridges. The hard thing is to know which ones to cross and which ones to burn.

The ability to laugh at yourself is a sign of higher intelligence.

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?